Question

The loading icon

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What is my application doing when the turning 'loading' icon is visible on the right top? I was hoping to detect what is going with the use of firebug but firebug doesn't show any ongoing activities

asked 2009-11-19

Michel Vermeer

3 answers

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That's the XAS's way of telling the javascript client that "it's busy". I don't think you can detect anything from the outside (ie your browser), what you could do is set the logging to debug or trace in the XAS

answered 2009-11-19

Achiel

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After migrating to 2.5.0.1 i've noticed that the loading icon is never visible. Some of our microflows in 2441 were triggering the loading icon but after migration we can't see the loading icon. So what does this mean?

answered 2010-09-08

Samet Kaya

Michiel Kalkman · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-19

The loading icon is displayed whenever the client thinks there are open connections to the XAS.

Every call to the XAS is tracked by the client and when a call returns, the client checks to see if there are any other open calls left. If not, it removes the icon.

This should happen regardless of validation errors, etc.

It also doesn't happen with long running background microflows - no connection is kept open for this. (The client will periodically poll for status, which, again temporarily triggers the loading icon for the duration of the polling call).

So in the normal course of events you should never see the loading icon running without having corresponding open calls to the XAS in Firebug. So, all-in-all this would seem to indicate that you have encountered a bug (between the call handoff from the host to the client). If you can reproduce this in a test project and submit it as a bug in MXDN, I would be most grateful.